Speed Talking

Check out this cool speed talking video. In under 2 minutes, he names the books of the Bible (Old and New Testaments) the Book of Mormon, the 50 US States, the alphabet backwards, the U. S. Presidents and the Academy Award winners for Best Picture.

I’ve shown several people at work your vid and they love it. Tell us, how long have you had this skill? And how long does it take to prep for it. And, have you ever used speed talking to deliver a sacrament talk…I think attendance would significantly increase! 🙂

Well, I feel privileged to have been picked up in the blogosphere. So there you go.

I haven’t sped-talked through sacrament meeting. For me, it only works if I already know the words well enough that I don’t have to think very much about what I’m saying–similar, I would imagine, to most people if they were asked to count to 100 really fast.

In one form or another, I’ve been doing this for about 20 years. I learned a 50 states song in 3rd grade, and after a while, started trying to see how quickly I could name the states. Most of the rest of the list was added in high school. After putting a simple version on YouTube, I decided about a week later to add images and a Best Picture list I’d memorized, and that’s the version you’ve got here.

The difference between memorization and speed talking is simply practice. It took me a few days to get the speed down on the Best Picture list–I probably shaved 45 seconds or so off my time. Just time yourself and try to beat your last time.

That was soooo coool. I’ll try doing that in the office. Many of my colleagues at WorknPlay http://www.worknplay.co.kr are Koreans. They practically speak their language very fast. If I knew how to speak like that, they’d be wondering how great an American I am. Lol.

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